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Being forgotten. but tonight the push to make sure their names are remembered goes on. its believed members of the first african families, brought to america as slaves 400 years ago this month, are buried here in in virginia. >> the first africans arrived here and would have walked up this road behind us. >> slaves? >> yeah. >> reporter: records show the first slave, a woman known as angelo was brought from angola to jamestown island in 1619. wanda tucker and her family believe william tucker, t...

A massive explosion destroyed a office billing near baltimore this morning. the blast was caused by a gas leak. first responders managed to evacuate that area in time, so no one got hurt. this weekend bells tolled in cities across the country to mark a somber anniversary, 400 years since the arrival of captured africans. we have a story of people in richmond, virginia, working to recover part of that history nearly forgotten. >> reporter: every weekend they make progress, cutting through half ...

A natural treasure, slowly being rediscovered. >> i feel very connected to the earth and to my heritage here. >> reporter: a historical burial ground called evergreen, here for thousands of of prominent black virginians, but through the decades, the accomplishments like this place, hidden and forgotten. standing here, its hard to imagine more than 20,000 souls are laid to rest here. doctors, lawyers, soldiers, african-american heroes of their time. >> lizas great-great-grand mother, maggie walke...

Has begun to spend public money to preserve places like evergreen. >> were evolved, more mature. i think were ready to deal with this history. >> ready to count down? >> reporter: in fact the state even recently unveiled a statue to maggie walker in richmond, once the capital of the confederacy. its inspiring to her great-great granddaughter. shes obvious been out here with the volunteers. >> its a treasure to the nation. >> reporter: a huge piece of history, no longer ignored. ron allen, nbc ne...

>> tricia walked to an off campus super market and never returned to her dorm. now nearly 20 years later, her parents are still waiting. >> you purchase a cemetery plot. >> yeah. >> no headstone. >> not until we find her. >> and we have no answers, and somebody out there, thats what eats at me, somebody out there has that answer for us. >> tricia reitler wasnt even prosecutor beaumonts case, but he was deeply moved by her parents. >> that was always a horrible crime to me. i knew about the facts...

Omar villafranca has one widows story. >> it got to where, there at the end, he couldnt walk. >> reporter: kathy mccoys husband, michael, died late last year. he was a grandfather of ten and hproud retired army sergeant. in 2014, he went to an arkansas v.a. complaining of a pain in his leg. so they kept on saying it was arthritis. a arthritis. >> reporter: what did it end up being? >> a blood clot in the leg. e reporter: mccoys case is one er thousands under review, after veterans affairs pathol...

Murder. but if they did tell it? what sort of credibility would a person like that have? >> my concerns our most important witness is going to admit that he killed two people, literally beat casey clarks brains out. >> how do you handle that? >> you have to raise it. our number two witness has a tattoo on his back of him urinating on the headstone of the last guy that he killed. these are our two star witnesses. >> still, tim suckow, the actual killer was by far the more important witness. after...

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Have fun getting back up. >> reporter: she did and the kept going. visiting the grand canyon, teton national park, yellotone, joshua tree and glacier national park and redwood national park. >> hey, grandma, where are we? >> were in the middle of a redwood forest. >> how do you feel when you look up at these trees? >> they make you feel very small. >> does it make you feel very young? >> not me. ive walked too many miles. >> reporter: and shes still walking. texas and new mexico next. tonight, w...

Gunman, throwing him so that the gun fell out of the suspects hand. >> he was wearing this brown leather belt with a lot of bullets on it. he came very fully prepared. >> reporter: police describing the suspect as a white norwegian citizen, around 20 years old, he had expressed extreme right wing views, and "hostile attitudes" towards immigrants. authorities later visited his residence where they found his 17-year-old step-sister dead. he is now suspected in that death. there are reports that th...